An increasingly-frustrated Google Guy

July 14, 2014 1:10 AM

What if Google was a guy? [part 3]. Includes special guest Siri.

previously: part 1 and part 2

posted by paleyellowwithorange (23 comments total)

Is that Alison "Shauna Malwae-Tweep" Becker as Siri?
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:37 AM on July 14, 2014

Relevant (?)
posted by belarius at 2:02 AM on July 14, 2014 [5 favorites]

Just this, every week for 1/2 hour would be better than 99% of television.

Actually just Brian Huskey making faces in a mirror would be better than 99% of television.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 4:01 AM on July 14, 2014 [4 favorites]

These are funny as hell, though they do quickly gloss-over Google's "Did you mean..." bullshit as if it's the user's problem.
posted by Thorzdad at 4:58 AM on July 14, 2014 [1 favorite]

they do quickly gloss-over Google's "Did you mean..." bullshit as if it's the user's problem

Really? Because it seemed like Google was in the wrong there. Is "surfbort" something that I need to be a Beyonce voter to understand?
posted by sparklemotion at 6:27 AM on July 14, 2014

safe search off *BOOM*
posted by SharkParty at 7:19 AM on July 14, 2014

These never get old.

I also agree that Brian Huskey is criminally underutilized in life in general. Our decision to buy a Toyota Sienna was based in large part on the Swagger Wagon video.
posted by Ben Trismegistus at 8:07 AM on July 14, 2014 [3 favorites]

"Clear history."

{{flamethrower}}

...Don't blame you, Google.
posted by seyirci at 8:29 AM on July 14, 2014 [1 favorite]

> Actually just Brian Huskey making faces in a mirror would be better than 99% of television.

I've said that I would watch a 30 minute show of just Eugene Mirman and Kristin Schall yelling while someone waves around colored pieces of cloth. Not as good as an actual episode of Bob's Burgers, but, like you said, better than most of the other stuff on television.
posted by benito.strauss at 9:57 AM on July 14, 2014 [3 favorites]

Did you mean "What if Google were a guy"?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:04 AM on July 14, 2014 [1 favorite]

Did you mean "What if Google were a guy"?

Welcome to the slow decline of the subjunctive mood. If it were any other way I wouldn't be drowning my sorrow in tequila.
posted by bswinburn at 10:12 AM on July 14, 2014 [2 favorites]

Me, I could care less.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:42 AM on July 14, 2014 [1 favorite]

I see what you did there....
posted by digitalprimate at 11:00 AM on July 14, 2014

My favorite Brian Huskey bit is For-Profit Online University.
posted by creade at 12:23 PM on July 14, 2014 [4 favorites]

Is that Alison "Shauna Malwae-Tweep" Becker as Siri?

Yes- Click on 'Credits' button (lower right under screen).

But you knew that... right?

Is yellow a drug?
posted by jammy at 1:51 PM on July 14, 2014

they do quickly gloss-over Google's "Did you mean..." bullshit as if it's the user's problem

It's more useful than not 90% of the time, to me. Where are you using it that it's a problem? It almost always comes up when i misspell something or misremember something.
posted by empath at 2:38 PM on July 14, 2014

It can be a problem when you're being pedantic about the difference of something that a lot of people use interchangeably, like army and military, speed and velocity, or were and was. Or when you're searching for a proper name that is also a real word and it substitutes synonyms. Or when you're searching for a programming language or a product name or a DJ's name that looks a lot like the misspelling of a real word. Or conversely you're searching for the real word and the clever misspelling is more popular. (But actually the DID YOU MEAN isn't a problem because it asks. But sometimes it will just substitute, especially when you have a lot of words.)


But these videos are 99% not really about Google and more about the implied characters behind the searches like the mother terrified that her kid is doing YOLO, and the guy trying to not pay his taxes.
posted by RobotHero at 3:55 PM on July 14, 2014 [1 favorite]

It turns out YOLO is cocaine.
posted by RobotHero at 4:07 PM on July 14, 2014

It turns out YOLO is cocaine.

"Learn the latest drug slang terms kids are using."
http://www.noslang.com/drugs/
That site looks dodgy as hell.

You know what YOLO also means? "You Only Live Once"

Old news, actually...

Parents: Not every piece of slang is a code word for DRUXGS!!!!!
posted by jammy at 4:16 PM on July 14, 2014

Well, yes, but I found that site by searching YOLO drugs which is totally how you find out what drug YOLO is.
posted by RobotHero at 4:26 PM on July 14, 2014 [1 favorite]

Also, I just learned that a "sandwich" is "two layers of cocaine with a layer of heroin in the middle." People do those in layers, right?
posted by RobotHero at 4:28 PM on July 14, 2014 [1 favorite]

Also, I just learned that a "sandwich" is "two layers of cocaine with a layer of heroin in the middle." People do those in layers, right?

wow!

also: hee hee
posted by jammy at 4:33 PM on July 14, 2014

Internet Slang is also called AOL speak

Okay.
posted by empath at 5:08 PM on July 14, 2014